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8461 | The category of objects incorporates the old distinction of substances and their modes [Quine] |
Full Idea: The category of objects embraces indiscriminately what would anciently have been distinguished as substances and as modes or states of substances. | |
From: Willard Quine (The Scope and Language of Science [1954], §6) | |
A reaction: This nicely captures Quine's elimination of properties, by presenting them as inseparable from their objects/substances. Armstrong calls this 'Ostrich Nominalism' (for refusing to address the universals problem) but Quineans are unshaken. |